Of course Elon swiped the @X account out from under the person who'd had it previously. There was only one way this was ever going to play out.

Does the owner of the account have any recourse? I'm pretty sure that the answer is NOPE.

@evacide When I had the @netflix account, Netflix "bought" it from me for a year of free netflix. (It was supposed to be a lifetime, but the guy, Michael something, couldn't do more than a year). He said he could have just taken it, but since my use of the account to provide support was what got the board interested in using Netflix (seriously, I demonstrated it, that made them do it), he wanted to thank me. I think since Elon owned the X mark, he could have gone the long way around too.